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The two sailors escape to continue their lives of decadence. Watch full episodes and clips of Popular Primetime, Daytime, Late Night and Classic shows on CBS.com. The King orders the two sailors to drink “a gallon of Black Strap” and remain at the table, otherwise, they shall be duly drowned but the two men argue and expose King Pest to be a local actor. King Pest the First presides at the head of the table holding a human femur as a scepter his edematous Queen is seated opposite him and the guest to the King’s left suffers permanent residence in coffin.
The narrative describes the drunken meandering of two sailors, wandering into a quarantined ghetto, winding up in the cellar of an undertaker in the presence of the Royal Family, every one of whom “seemed to possess a monopoly of some particular portion of physiognomy”. The setting is suggestive of 14th-c England amid the Bubonic Plague. Poe’s King Pest is an allegory - a story within a story. King Pest, From the story King Pest, 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, (American: 1809-1849), Image taken from Tales of Mystery and Imagination Illustrated by Harry Clarke.